In a mind-bending MITeen anthology, ten top YA authors use emerging technologies to explore startling new realities. What does the future hold? Ten speculative short stories by leading young-adult authors imagine what the world could be through the lens of technologies emerging today. When the modification industry transforms how humans look, sound, and interact, a nonbinary teen braves the “reinvention room” to accept a gift from the dead. In an accidental city in space, a young apprentice holds neighborhoods together with braided carbon filaments until distraction and inspiration arrive in the wake of a visitor. Entitlement-fueled drug use alters the landscape of white privilege, robots remember the Earth, and corporate “walkers” stroll for unknown subscribers—until one hacks the system. In tales buzzing with possibility, hope, innovation, anger, and tenderness, Tasting Light offers a dazzling challenge to connect with open minds, hearts, and senses in a fast-changing world. With stories by: William Alexander K. Ancrum Elizabeth Bear A.R. Capetta Charlotte Nicole Davis Nasugraq Rainey Hopson A.S. King E.C. Myers Junauda Petrus-Nasah Wendy Xu A diverse anthology showing hopeful futures imagined through the lens of technology. . . . celebrates queerness, a variety of gender identities, and the freedom to be oneself, delving into how technology can influence and transform reality as well as be used for the greater good—or to oppress. . . . A top-notch hard science fiction collection. —Kirkus Reviews (starred review) Dazzling . . . explores emerging innovative technology to imagine expansive futures. . . . Podcast scripts, pen pal letters, and a b&w comic, illustrated via gentle line, are a few of the vehicles used to render these moving tales. The creators seamlessly tackle relevant issues such as colonization, misogyny, transphobia, and white entitlement in this eclectic celebration of infinite possibility and the ever-present human spirit. —Publishers Weekly (starred review) The 10 short stories in this luminous collection are set in the future in different locations. . . At once unsettling and moving , this crystalline collection will find or create a connection with its readers. —Booklist This collection of innovative YA hard science fiction short stories thoughtfully reimagines a gender-diverse future from an array of perspectives. . . . Each story is unique, brilliant, and brimming with hope . —Buzzfeed It’s been a while since we had a full YA collection of only science fiction, but who better to bring it back than Capetta and Roush. They’ve put together a fine array of stories blending queerness and technology. —Tor.com Tasting Light explores everyday coming-of-age issues but throws in speculative curveballs. . . a great intro to a really diverse group of young adult authors ! —Seven Days A. R. Capetta is the author of The Heartbreak Bakery , Echo After Echo , The Lost Coast , and the best-selling Once & Future series, coauthored with their spouse, Cory McCarthy. They live in a small town in the mountains with their family. Wade Roush is a journalist and audio producer who focuses on how science and technology are changing our lives and what we can do as individuals to steer that process. He is the editor of the hard science anthology Twelve Tomorrows , published by MIT Press. He holds a PhD from MIT in the history of technology and lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts. CADENCE   Charlotte Nicole Davis   Some voices are copyrighted. You can’t be Beyoncé. But, for enough money, you can be just about anyone else.    Cadence has been saving up for this. They have been taking extra shifts at Scoops, the soles of their shoes rip-rip-ripping across the sticky floor as they scurry around behind the counter, serving ice cream to rich suburban kids with forked tongues and slitted pupils. Cold-blooded, primeval: this is the look. Wymie Park sent his models down the runway with serpent mods last spring, and now everybody who’s anybody is wearing them.    Cadence is not anybody. Cadence is just another teenage twink-dyke tripping over the dirty gray laces of their Converse sneakers. There is a scribble where their brain should be. But they need a new speaking voice, they are confident of this much, at least. They are not chasing a trend, they are righting a wrong.    No one seems to understand this.  If you’re going to drop all that money on a mod, at least get a good one, Cadence’s older brother said. Your voice is fine. Fix your face.    Everybody hates the sound of their own voice, honey, Cadence’s mother said. You can’t just mod your way out of every little insecurity. You have to learn to love yourself as you are.  No, Cadence’s father said.    And so Cadence made their appointment in secret and went to the mod center alone, and now here they are, preparing to listen to the voices of the dead.    “Do you have a preference for the